The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 41

The king’s son followed what the raven told him and that night he had meat of each meat, and drink of each drink, warm water for his feet, and a soft bed to lie in.

Who acts: son, raven · What happens: follow, tell, have, lie in · To what, where: son, meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, raven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 followed	nsubj
5	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raven	det
8	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 followed	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl:unmarked
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	conj
16	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 meat	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 meat	det
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meat	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drink	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drink	cc
22	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 drink	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 drink	det
25	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 water	punct
27	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 feet	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 feet	nmod:poss
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 water	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bed	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bed	det
35	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bed	amod
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 lie	mark
38	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 bed	acl
39	in	in	ADV	_	38 lie	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the king's son					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the raven		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
3	have	past	raven	meat of each meat		night	drink of each drink and warm water for raven's feet obl; a soft bed obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
4	lie in	to-infinitive	raven not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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